Vanessa Roth

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Vanessa Roth is an American filmmaker who writes, produces and directs non-fiction films. She has won a number of awards for her films, including a 2008 Academy Award for Best Short Documentary for ''Freeheld''; an Emmy Honors Award for Social Impact and a IDA Nomination for best doc series for her Netflix series, Daughters of Destiny; an Alfred I duPont-Columbia award for ''Taken In: The Lives of America's Foster Children''; Impact Doc Awards for Outstanding Achievement in filmmaking for ''The Girl and The Picture''; two Sundance Special Jury Prizes; two Cine Golden Eagles; two Casey Medals; and a MacArthur Grant. She directed ''Mary J. Blige's My Life'' (2021).

Some of her films include ''Liberation Heroes: The Last Eyewitnesses'', ''The Girl and the Picture'', ''Freeheld'', ''Close to Home'', ''Aging Out'', ''The Third Monday in October'', ''9/11’s Toxic Dust'', ''No Tomorrow'', ''The Other Side'', ''American Teacher'', and ''The Texas Promise''. She was also the executive producer, writer, and director of ''Daughters of Destiny: The Journey of Shanti Bhavan'' - a four-part Netflix original documentary series released in 2017.